THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, December 8. 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 268, 8 December 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, December 8. 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shipping. The o.v. Otimai arrived at Opotiki yesterday and will leave Opotiki tomorrow. The* O.v. Waiotahi is expected to arrive at Opotiki to-morrow from Auckland, and will leave for Auckland on Mbnday evening. Temperatures. ,/ '.■> North Island temperatures' at 9 o’clock yesterday morning‘were as follows:—Castlepoint, 70 degrees, Capo Palliser 69, Napier and Gisborne 68, Wellington 67, Tauranga 66, Opotiki 65, Auckland 64.. Power Failure. As a result of a breakdown at Arapuni on Wednesday afternoon, , the •power in the Opotiki district was cut off for some time after 4, o’clock. The stoppage was at a very awkward time as ... .milking, cooking and other operations were in full swing. Appearances Deceptive. , “If the possession of a motor, car is an indication of wealth, then, from the appearance of the streets, New Zealand would be a country , of millionaires,” _ said Mr. Justice Nortlicroct in tho Supremo Court, Christchurch. Idle promptly added that the true position was otherwise. Freedom From Illness. , A record to which she would often point with pride, that during her lifetime she had! never once had cause to seek medical aid for herself was enjoyed by Mrs. Mary Jane Warren, wife* of 3fir. J. Warren, Waipukurau, who passed away, at tho age of S 7 years, on Sunday. Mushroom Industries. A timely note of caution was sounded by Mr. R. W. Gillespie, president of the Bank of Now South Wales, at the annual meeting in Sydney, when he drew attention, to the danger that emergency measures of finance and of war-time development might give encouragement to the -growth of industries which would have no hope of survival when such help was withdrawn. Shortage of Wrapping paper. Shopkeepers in Waipukurau arc faced with n shortage of paper bags and brown wrapping paper. Growers and others' who make use of . large quantities of wrapping paper said they had been advised by travellers that this commodity was becoming scarce, and! stocks on hand would have to bo made to. last as long as possible by practising economy. Ciants—Old! and New. “One is always being told of the giants of the oldl days—of the stalwarts from the Wairarapa who used to he in tho fifteen, and one is told that the physique of the present-day boy docs not compare with, the olu days,” said Mr. W. A. Armour, principal of the Wellington Boys’ College, at an old hoys’ function. But facts seemed to belie these assertions, lie said. At present there were in .the college 14 hoys Git. tall or over, the tallest being 6ft. 2J-in. in height; and 14 hoys weighed 12 stone or more, the heaviest being 15 stone 811). in. weight, and four others being over 13 stone.

Coif Ball in Bird's Nest. * Golf balls can lincl their way into strange places. Playing at the Westowii links, this week, a golfer hooked his tee shot at the r idurth and saw it disappear intcj a clump of trees. The player saw the ball land and wiis convinced 1 •he could walk straight to* the spofc-aiul retrieve itHe and! his partner searched fruitlessly for 10 minutes until at last the greonkeeper came to the rescue. After a careful search under the tree he had a brain-wave. He climbed to the top. of the tree, and there,- nestled in the middle of a bird’s nest, was the elusive hall.